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BROOKS v. CITY OF SAN MATEO

No. 98-15818.

214 F.3d 1082 (2000)

Patricia A. BROOKS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF SAN MATEO, a municipal corporation; San Mateo Police Department; John Stangl, Chief of Police; Steven Selvaggio, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 5, 2000

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Prentice and Sheila A. Reid, Prentice & Scott, San Francisco, California, argued the cause for plaintiff-appellant.

Nancy E. Pritikin, Littler, Mendelson, San Francisco, California, argued the cause for Defendants-Appellees, City of San Mateo, et. al. With her on the briefs were Ronald J. Holland and Susan A.P. Woodhouse.

Alison Berry-Wilkinson, Rains, Lucia & Wilkinson, Pleasant Hill, California, argued the cause for Defendant-Appellee Steven Selvaggio. With her on the briefs was Kamili A. Williams.

Before: WOOD, Jr., KOZINSKI and RYMER, Circuit Judges.

KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge.

We consider the legal implications of a single, rather unsavory, episode of workplace sexual harassment.

I

Our story begins when Patricia Brooks, a telephone dispatcher for the City of San Mateo, California, and her coworker, senior dispatcher Steven Selvaggio, manned the city's Communications Center, taking 911 calls on the evening shift. At some point during the evening, Selvaggio approached Brooks as she was taking a call...

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